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Garden Help Desk: How to tell when peaches are ready for picking

How can I tell when my peaches are ready to pick? Fresh peaches are a favorite late summer and early autumn fruit and a popular home orchard choice. The best stage for harvesting and the stage for eating are usually several days apart with different signs for readiness. Peaches will ...

Garden Help Desk: Six tips to help get you over your gardening hurdles

Today we’re sharing some gardening encouragement from one of the Master Gardener candidates in this year’s class. I spent time last summer at a local farmers market. This was partly to sell produce but mostly to interact with other backyard gardeners and better understand their ...

Garden Help Desk: Lawn going brown? Check your watering method

My lawn is burning up in the heat. Can I put on some nitrogen to help it green up and grow? In general, it’s best if we don’t fertilize stressed plants, especially water-stressed or heat-stressed plants, and that includes our lawns. The lawns in our area are cool-season lawns - they ...